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A psychologist who also teaches at a school wrestles with his personal life, in which his former lover prepares to move away while pregnant with his child, and his professional life, in which he treats an exotic dancer with anxiety issues and tries to help a gifted, yet troubled, student in one of his night classes.
2) Great house
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An enormous desk, once the property of a young poet who was kidnapped by Pinochet's secret police, becomes an inspiration and an obsession to the people whose lives it touches.
4) Waterloo
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Reporter Nick Lasseter's pitiful life and career take a turn for the better when he stumbles upon a story that has the potential to make his career and bring him national celebrity.
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After being released from prison, a young man whose life was destroyed after a liaison with an underage girl agrees to help a university sociologist with his research on homelessness and recidivism among six offenders and the two form an unlikely friendship, until events from the professor's past come to light and cause the young man to question everything he knows.
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After losing virtually everything meaningful in his life, Benjamin trains to be a caregiver, but his first client, a fiercely independent teen with muscular dystrophy, gives him more than he bargained for and soon the two embark on a road trip to visit the boy's ailing father.
11) The last girls
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Four women, part of a group of classmates from Blue Ridge women's college who traveled down the Mississippi on a homemade raft in 1965, reunite thirty-five years later to share their memories, examine how their lives have turned out, and sprinkle the ashes of a fifth friend in the waters off New Orleans.
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Sarah Candless, grieving the death of her father, a best-selling novelist, decides to write a biography of her celebrated parent, but her research turns up many revelations that not only shock Sarah, but provide her with answers to some long-standing riddles about her family.
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Fifteen-year-old Jonas, the only survivor of his family after the U.S. bombs his Middle Eastern country, relocates to America where he tells a counselor about Christopher Henderson, an American soldier who disappeared after saving him.
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Thirtysomething Emily Wilson, having agreed to visit her great-aunt Bee on Bainbridge Island and trying to cope with her divorce while doing research for her next novel, finds a diary from 1943 and realizes the life of its anonymous author is connected to hers, sending Emily on a path of facing her past and looking to her future.
15) White guys
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A twenty-year reunion is the catalyst that causes Billy Mogavero to make the social leap to respectability and conformity; but when his new wife, Maureen, and their unborn child are victims of a drive-by shooting, Billy's life takes a sudden turn.
16) Islands
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Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family. That changes when she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant surgeon fifteen years older than Anny. When they marry, she finds her family-not a traditional one, but a group of Charleston childhood friends who are inseparable, who are one another's surrogate...
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Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton and his devout wife, Kate, bring three-year-old Benji from Nagasaki to live with them on their Illinois farm in the late nineteenth century, claiming he is an orphan, but when it becomes known that Benji is the son of Benjamin and a geisha, shock runs throughout their entire community, and Benji is freed to explore his own identity and the truth about his mother's death.
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A Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, New York Times best-selling author Dave Eggers is the voice of a generation. This stunning collection of his matchless short fiction includes the highly acclaimed The Only Meaning of Oil-Wet Water.
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New Orleans cocktail waitress Caroline Winters, having run away from her home in New York fifteen years earlier following the disappearance of her little sister, Ellie, spots a picture of a woman in a magazine that she believes is Ellie, now grown up, and embarks on a quest to find the woman and heal her family.
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